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Speaking to a conference on “meeting the health-care challenge” on Oct. 23, 2021, a few days less than a year before she assumed office as Alberta’s premier, Smith laid out a plan to sever major public hospitals from Alberta Health Services and privatize them.

“You give money to Alberta Health insurance. It’s a separate entity. It’s a government entity, so it’s publicly administered,” she explained to her audience at the meeting of the “Economic Education Association,” a libertarian group. “They are forbidden from running any programs or any hospitals themselves.”

“Alberta Health Services becomes the contractor,” she continued, explaining how her plan would work after the creation of the new level of health-care bureaucracy she’d dreamed up with the apparent purpose of dismantling public health care.
She goes on: “Sure we can grandfather in their contract.”

At this point, you can almost hear Smith’s sly wink. “For now…. But then we would have the Health Quality Council of Alberta do us an auditor function, and tell us whether or not Alberta Health Services should continue running the Lougheed Hospital, or the Rockyview Hospital or South Campus, or any of the hundred hospitals that they currently run.”

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/05/1...c-Health-Care/

This was from 2021, and it was no secret. Oh, sure, let's elect the ####ing serpent. Idiots.